Candy Land's Dark TV Adaptation

The classic children's board game Candy Land is getting a gritty HBO reboot, and it's not what anyone expected. Touted as a "hard-hitting prestige drama," the show reimagines King Kandy as a tyrannical sugar warlord and Queen Frostine as a recovering sugar addict running a smuggling operation for licorice snaps. The show's creator called it "a searing look at the dark underbelly of a society addicted to sucrose and the brutal cost of the gingerbread wars." Leaked scripts reveal a scene where Plumpy, the overweight plastic elf, has a tragic backstory involving a failed lollipop farm and a crippling gumdrop debt. Parents are horrified, but critics are already hailing it as a masterpiece. "It's 'Game of Thrones' meets your dentist's worst nightmare," one review stated. The show's tagline? "Sweetness has a price." -- Bohiney Magazne bohiney.com